Organizational Identity and Learning: A Psychodynamic Perspective

By Andrew D. Brown, K. Starkey. 2000

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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What Can Psychoanalysis Offer Organization Studies Today? Taking Stock of Current Developments and Thinking about Future Directions (2012, background): “Sparked partly by the idiosyncratic re-interpretation of Jacques Lacan’s work and the no less lively delivery of these interpretations, by the colourful philosopher-cum-activist Slavoj Žižek, and partly by the theoretical inspirations Lacan’s work has given to other influential critical social theor”
The Dynamics of Organizational Identity (2002, background): “Following Brown (1997; Brown & Starkey, 2000) we diagnosed the condition of being unwilling or unable to respond to external images as organizational narcissism.”
Cause Maps, Sensemaking, and Planned Organizational Change (2001, background): “…to change may be due to organization members’ needs to have time to make sense out of and understand changes in their environment in a self-defensive effort to allay anxiety, resolve conflicts, and reduce ambiguity (Brown & Starkey, 2000; Dubrin & Ireland, 1993; Gemmil & Smith, 1985; Zander, 1950).”
Identity Workspaces: The Case of Business Schools (2010, unknown): “…& McVicker Clinchy, 1999; Gould, Stapley, & Stein, 2004; Neumann, 1999; James & Huffington, 2004); organizational identity and learning (Bain, 1998; Brown & Starkey, 2000), leadership (Obholzer, 1996; Stein, 2005, 2007a); and understanding organizational (Smith, 1989; Stein, 2000, 2004, 2007b);…”
Ties to the Past in Organization Research: A Comparative Analysis of Retrospective Methods (2007, background): “…in critical studies the fuller picture that emerges is more disturbing than more ‘accurate’, directing attention to issues such as mystification and colonization (see Alvesson & Willmott, 1996), and highlighting material or psychic disadvantage or defense (cf. Brown & Starkey, 2000; Casey, 1999).”
The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work (2012, background): “…has been a central concern for clinical psychodynamic authors (Erikson, 1959 [1980]), little has been written on identity dynamics in organizations from a psychodynamic perspective, with a few exceptions (Brown, 1997; Brown & Starkey, 2000; Dubouloy, 2004; Petriglieri & Petriglieri, 2010).”
Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2014, background): “At the organizational level, Brown and Starkey (2000) have argued that members have elaborate defense mechanisms that protect their individual and organizational identities from threat, and the anxiety and intense discomfort that comes with such threat.”
Games Managers Play: Play as a Form of Leadership Development (2011, background): “Similarly, in organizational research, Brown and Starkey (2000) conceptualized play as a range of activities that allow organizational members to explore the threshold between the current situation and future possibilities.”
Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger (2010, background): “Contrary to the threat-rigidity hypothesis (Staw, Sandelands, and Dutton, 1981) and related work on organizational identity (Brown and Starkey, 2000), we found that environmental threats in the merger context tended to destabilize identity-based beliefs and make identity-related cognitions more…”
Struggling with Lack: A Lacanian Perspective on Organizational Identity (2009, methodology): “Lacan and Identity In this review I will follow the approach developed in prior applications of psychoanalytic concepts to the study of organizational identity and give only a brief overview of Lacanian theorizing while acknowledging that this does not nearly exhaust the wealth of psychoanalytic tho”